SHOW CHARSET Syntax¶

SHOW CHARSET

SHOW CHARSET displays the available character sets. Currently available types are: utf8 and utf8mb4. The default charset type is utf8. Nebula Graph extends the uft8 to support four byte characters. Therefore utf8 and utf8mb4 equivalent.

nebula> SHOW CHARSET;
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| Charset | Description   | Default collation | Maxlen |
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| utf8    | UTF-8 Unicode | utf8_bin          | 4      |
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SHOW CHARSET output has these columns:

• Charset The character set name.
• Description A description of the character set.
• Default collation The default collation for the character set.
• Maxlen The maximum number of bytes required to store one character.